Articles filed under Politics
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Public school closures may be a big mistakeMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - Decades from now, historians will ask themselves why most of America's governors shuttered public schools for months because of the coronavirus outbreak. Worse, America'...
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Fauci warns against reopening too quickly at highly anticipated Senate hearingMay 12, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, warned of "suffering and death that could be avoided" and further economic damage if states reope...
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Virus among White House staffers has reporters reassessing their risksMay 11, 2020 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - The White House press room turned out to be a more dangerous place than anyone realized. And the reporters who work there started getting nervous about it. ...
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A Ramadan to rememberMay 11, 2020 1:00 am - Everyone is sifting lessons from the current crisis, and without a doubt, no one is going to forget 2020. Every family has a story to tell about a postponed wedding, vir...
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Trump trolling for fun and profitMay 10, 2020 1:00 am - In 2003, during the George W. Bush administration, the columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase "Bush Derangement Syndrome" to refer to some of the president's mo...
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Lessons from the pandemic for a homebound physicianMay 10, 2020 1:00 am - I am not one of the physicians who are on the front lines in the COVID-19 battle. It is with a sense of guilt and relief that I observe those who are. I am mostly stayi...
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After three years, who are we now?May 08, 2020 1:00 am - A week after Donald Trump was elected president, writer and scholar Sarah Kendzior, who had predicted in 2015 that he would win, wrote a public letter to the American pu...
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We must protect our elections against coronavirusMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - By Mike Quigley and Nita M. Lowey Guest columnists If you had asked us a year ago to identify threats to the 2020 election, we would have said Russian interference and s...
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Editorial: The case for convening a legislative sessionMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - House Republican Leader Jim Durkin complained at a news conference that it's time for Gov. J.B. Pritzker to stop governing by "decree" and for the legislature to come ba...
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Where is everyone going?May 07, 2020 1:00 am - I live in Los Angeles County, where new coronavirus cases are showing up as fast as anywhere in the country. We're on lockdown. We were the first state to be told to sta...